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Germany will not patent Saudi invention
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A Saudi inventor's proposal to insert semiconductors subcutaneously in visitors and remotely kill them if they misbehave will not be patented in Germany. On Wednesday, a German Patent Office spokeswoman said the application was received on October 30, 2007 and published 18 months later, as required by law, in a patents database. But inventions that are unethical or a danger to the public are not recognized. Reporters said the document proposed that tiny semiconductors be implanted or placed by injection under the skin of people so their whereabouts could be tracked by global-positioning satellites... to prevent immigrants overstaying. A model B of the system would contain a poison such as cyanide, which could be released by remote control to "eliminate" people if they became a security risk. The document said this could be used against terrorists or criminals.

Ah, and who said Arabs never invented anything? That is one scary piece of technology, but perhaps the US could use that on visitors - especially official visitors from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, etc. Maybe a less directly-lethal version would just have a beeper in it or make their skin turn blue. Or green, for people who overstay their visa?

Recent Gun Rights Examiner columns regarding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reminded me of an interview I did some years back with a former ATF inspector. I went looking for it and found it has disappeared from the website that hosted it.

I believe it is still (and especially) relevant today, so present it here to preserve it, and to provide some recent past perspective to our current discussions. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

I’m referring, of course, to the domestic violence industry. DV operatives make bogus claims designed to garner ever-expanding federal funding, which in turn is used to disseminate more biased factoids that keep women in a continuous state of fear. It’s a multi-billion dollar, taxpayer-financed scam, and I’m here to blow the whistle.

Last week Dear Abby devoted her column to helping a man who had been pummeled and maimed by his wife. And according to a 2006 Harris poll, 55% of Americans know of a man who has been physically abused by his wife or girlfriend.(Read the rest here)

I often get mail from readers inquiring on what to do to advance the cause of secession in their respective locales. So I’d like to discuss a few ideas on how it has worked in the past and how it may work in the future. I would first dispose of the canard that it is traitorous or unpatriotic to consider this. Do you suppose our rulers in DC abide by the rule of law, see the Constitution (I prefer the DI) as a bedrock document and seek to respect the real diversity in America (not the silly race, class & gender motif)? That diversity is the vast gulf in tolerance for levels of government as opposed to governance. Government is the command and control apparatus to manipulate people through coercion and violence. The distinction is that governance can occur in a minarchist or stateless realm because it runs the gamut from forms of external control to the personal controls of one’s own nature and relationship in society. Positive self-governance is the ability not only to do right by yourself but use your self-interest to serve others e.g., a business or voluntary work in a community and do them no harm. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

We've all heard the standard statements about a mother's instinct to protect her young, but this language is beautifully compact, and cuts right to the chase: survival depends on the unquestioned willingness to do violence if necessary. So it is for the cow moose protecting herself and calf from a pack of wolves; so it is no different for the human mother protecting herself and child from a gang of thugs*. No law, decree, edict, or social taboo will stay the wolves from their prey; nothing but the credible threat that they may not only not succeed in their attack, but may get killed trying, will give them pause. And Geist makes it very clear that the wolves do understand this, and go to great lengths not to press an attack on a cow moose standing her ground. Most of the time, they will go elsewhere for easier prey, and when they do press the attack they do not always succeed; plenty of shattered wolf skulls and ribs attest to the fact that Ma moose is not joking. She may go down by force of numbers or by sheer bad luck, but it will not be without a violent fight.

This of course sounds familiar and proper to those who believe in liberty and the natural right to self-defense. As Jeff Cooper said, when asked if violence does not beget violence, "I would certainly hope that it does!" What I think this example brings to the table is a wonderful illustration of how natural and innate the right and the beauty of self-defense is. I mean, can you imagine the over-civilized picking on a cow moose for her "undoubted propensity for violence"? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Will there come a day when people are as disturbed by seeing the image of a cop on a movie screen as they now are at seeing a Nazi goon? Probably. For some of us that day is already here. Before you start invoking "Godwin's Law" remember that Godwin realized there are times when comparisons are appropriate and accurate.

I was in a parking lot a while back; going into a fast-food restaurant. A cop came bursting out the door of a neighboring food place. He stomped authoritatively to his car, rounded the front bumper... and fell. He caught himself on his car before he hit the ground. I couldn't avoid the feeling of justice and amusement that welled up inside me. Would I have had that reaction to the misfortune of an actual helpful individual? Absolutely not. Instead, my reaction was similar to what I feel when I watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and see the Nazis get karmic justice dished out to them near the end. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

So being arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol does not require a person to actually operate a vehicle. It doesn’t require any proof that the person was actually going to operate the vehicle, as opposed to turning the vehicle off and calling a cab.

All it requires is a cop who claims to know what a person is thinking, such as “I’m going to start this car and drive home drunk” as opposed to “I don’t want a DUI so I’m going to turn the vehicle off and call a cab,” and then arresting him for thinking the thoughts the cop thought he thought. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. Throughout history, governments have used violence, intimidation, coercion, and mass murder to enforce this system. But governments' first line of "defense" is always a blizzard of lies — about its own alleged benevolence, altruism, heroism, and greatness, along with equally big lies about the "evils" of the civil society, especially the free market.

The current economic crisis, which was instigated by the government's central bank and its boom-and-bust monetary policies, among other interventions, has once again been blamed on "too little regulation" and too much freedom. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

David Brooks, the New York Times’s resident neoconservative, delights in peddling a false alternative: freedom or social order. His latest column hawking this snake oil comes in the form of advice to the struggling Republican Party: “If the Republicans are going to rebound, they will have to reestablish themselves as the party of civic order.” In other words, give up freedom.

I have no wish to defend the Republicans. Heaven knows there’s nothing left to defend. In a mere eight years that party embroiled the United States in two murderous invasion-occupations, ushered in a dramatic decline in civil liberty, spat on the decency of Americans by authorizing and applauding torture, bailed out big banks, and spent the country into mind-numbing debt. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

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